Product-Focused Software Process Improvement: 8th International Conference, PROFES 2007, Riga, Latvia, July 2-4, 2007, Proceedings

The Eight International Conference on Product—Focused Software Process Impro— ment (PROFES 2007) brought together researchers and industrial practitioners to report new research results and exchange experiences and findings in the area of process and product improvement. The focus of the conference is on understanding, learning, evaluating, and improving the relationships between process improvement activities (such as the deployment of innovative defect detection processes) and their effec...